Cathy Green
Overview
Cathy Green is Health Partners International’s lead consultant in Social Development and provides a range of technical advisory services social development issues in health systems strengthening in Africa and Asia. Her key areas of expertise include: health and gender equity, qualitative research and social appraisal of health interventions, reproductive and sexual health (including HIV and AIDS), strengthening voice and accountability, increasing demand for and access to safe motherhood services, rights-based approaches to health, health safety nets for the very poor and gender analysis and training.
Background and relevant experience
Currently,Cathy provides ongoing technical advisory support in social development to the Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Programme in Nigeria. As Senior Community Engagement Adviser for the Mobilising Access to Maternal Health Care Services in Zambia (MAMaZ) programme, Cathy also provides strategic on-going support and is leading the assessment of demand-side barriers and the design of an initiative aiming to increase access to maternal and newborn health services in Serenje district, Zambia.
Cathy provided technical advisory support in health and social development to the Partnership for Transforming Health Systems 1 (PATHS 1) programme in Nigeria, funded by DFID. She also conducted a number of short-term consultancy assignments for the programme, including the design and subsequent strategic review of a demand-side safe motherhood programme in Northern Nigeria, and contributing on social development aspects to technical meetings on child health, strengthening health management and drug revolving funds, and deferral and exemption schemes in the health sector.
Between 2002 andn 2010, Cathy provided ongoing technical and project management support to the Gender and Health Equity Network (GHEN), a partnership concerned with developing and implementing policies to improve gender and health equity in resource-constrained environments.
Cathy’s other work included a review of social development technical assistance provided to the Health and Population Sector Programme in Bangladesh; provision of social development support to a hospital reform programme in Malawi; review and restructuring of a web-based dossier on meeting the health-related needs of the very poor, and inputs to a DFID workshop on this issue; production of a social appraisal for the project design of a £30m Health Commodities Project in Nigeria; social development inputs to a Peer and Participatory Rapid Hospital Appraisal for Action (PPRHAA) process at three referral hospitals in Tanzania; and the evaluation of community-based rehabilitation projects supported by Sight Savers International in Bangladesh.
Previously, Cathy worked as a social development consultant and projects manager with Options Consultancy Services (1996−2000), formerly DFID’s Resource Centre in Reproductive Health and Population, and as a consultant and researcher in gender analysis and development at the Institute of Development Studies, UK (1993−1994).
Cathy has consulted in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, China, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Ghana, Gambia, Nigeria, Malawi and Zambia.